The Routledge Handbook of Home

Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography. Her research seeks to understand the conditions in which people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the lifecourse. She is the author of several books, edited collections, and many chapters and articles. Her most recent monographs were published in 2019 under the title Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire, and in 2023 under the titles Rethinking Island Methodologies, with Godfrey Baldacchino and Elizabeth McMahon, and Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land, with Philip Hutch. Elaine is also an editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Home with Katie Walsh, and her next sole-authored book, The Drowned, is to be published in 2025. Work on Rethinking Life Course Geographies has, in early 2025, been supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Writer’s Residency award. For the decade from 2015 to 2024 Elaine was the editor-in-chief of the international journal, Geographical Research, and is now its senior associate editor. She received the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Griffith Taylor Medal for Distinguished Service to the Discipline in Australia in 2022. When not working, she plants, harvests, and cooks, walks and works out, reads up a storm, and hangs out with loved ones.

Katie Walsh is Reader in Human Geography in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK, where she has developed an undergraduate module on home. Over the last two decades, Katie has published wide-ranging empirical research on home in relation to transnationalism, materialities, emotion, intimacy, family, ageing, Britishness, and migrant belonging. More recently, she has been exploring Mass Observation project data, using it to think through the embodied home, housing inequalities, and ageing. Katie is also motivated in her work on home by personal experience of being a single parent household navigating the UK’s crises in building safety and leasehold homeownership. Among other publications, Katie is author of an ethnographic monograph on British migration to Dubai, Transnational Geographies of the Heart: Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalising City (2018), and has co-edited Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age (Routledge, 2016, with Lena Näre), British Migration (Routledge, 2019, with Pauline Leonard), and The New Expatriates: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals (Routledge, 2012, with Anne-Meike Fechter).